Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
Pretty great tbh. The tricky thing with being an early adopter is you kind of have to be the change you want to see, but I'm old enough to feel no shame about just barging into places and starting new threads as needed.
So far started two accounts on two different instances (I like to keep different subjects somewhat separate) and had really cool interactions on both.
Obviously there are a few UX issues, trying to sub to remote communities is kind of a nightmare, but hopefully I've subbed to enough that other people on my instance will find it a bit easier to find them through search.
great, i've really liked lemmy so far. its really the first alt big tech platform like this that i've gotten into, was never big on mastodon or any of the others out there.
lemmy is honestly a breath of fresh air. really great platform so far, i think it has very strong potential.
i still use reddit for some things, but overall i'm starting to use lemmy a lot more. great work from the devs, can't wait to see the future!
At least on my instance everything is running fast, snappy. I like the clean interface. Haven't encountered any major bugs yet.
The only downside for me so far is that there is not a lot to see yet.
The only active posts and communities are about lemmy itself. Which is understandable of course but I can't wait to actually get to the phase where I actually get to experience real content lmao
Oh man it has been unironically great! First day I joined there was basically nothing but a meme sublemmy and a couple of tech subs too, but nowadays there are communities popping up left right and center, and I'm seeing so many familiar subs recreated on here, too
Overall my past week of using Lemmy have been phenomenal, and I'm happy to say that Lemmy has become my mindless scrolling app of choice now
While not every community is on Lemmy yet that I visit on Reddit, by people migrating from Reddit to here, hopefully that issue will be solved soon. The community here seems way more welcoming than the Reddit community is too
I'm excited for the possibilities, but daunted by the realities.
It's going to be tough to get enough foot traffic to start populating smaller subs. It seems like the Reddit API drama is the big break needed to hit a critical mass of users, but how many will take the time to figure out something like Lemmy? And are the Lemmy instances ready? It's strange to root for Reddit to go through with the API changes after using Reddit for so long. But if there was ever a time to pay a bit extra for additional hosting resources, June 11th (or now!) should be it. If a large influx of new users crash Lemmy instances, and no one can sign up, a golden opportunity will be lost.
Signing up was not a flawless process. You are asked to make a choice about servers with little guidance on what it all means.
Requiring a 10 character password with additional character conditions is going to turn a lot of possible new users OFF. It should be 6 characters, with no conditions. Yes, it's not secure, but we need sign ups above everything else. Users can choose to get as complex as they want, but simplicity should also be an option. If people later grow to value their Lemmy accounts, they can secure them at a later time. But extremely easy sign up should be the default for now.
Asking people to write an extensive answer as to "why you want to join this particular server" should also be suspended temporarily. Again, it's about ease of signing up. We should try to get as many signups in as quickly as possible, and weed out the problem people later. After the possible Reddit migration boom ends, you can go back to application essays as a requirement for entry.
The web interface is buggy. The site will often "reset" as you are reading a thread, and the whole thread will act if "refreshed". If this causes users to lose a long post they are typing, they might quit Lemmy then and there.
The community structure needs to be more unified across instances. It's confusing that there are local groups as well as "multiverse" groups across federations, often with the exact same name. It's a bummer that the communities can be splintered, and will have people not realize what's really available.
I think we're might see some weaknesses of a distributed system like Lemmy in the next few weeks. It's hard to organize and get everyone rowing in the same direction with no "CEO" or clear leader. It does feel like little fiefdoms doing their own things, and that makes it even harder to hit critical mass.
In terms of content and userbase, so far so good. It obviously leans heavily towards the technically competent. Lemmy sort of screens for the technology inclined since it's only well known to those who are up to date with the latest in tech. So of course it's easy to feel like everyone is like minded and cool for now. But we need to attract casuals if we want vibrant, non-tech groups to exist and flourish too.
I've only been exploring for 2 days though, so I can be very wrong.
I really like it. The platform itself is great. The main thing that needs improvement is the onboarding experience. It seems really confusing at first, but I think that's mainly because it's not explained well.
For example, the first step of the onboarding process is choosing which server to join, which I think is kind of a misleading decision. It seems like you're choosing what community you're going to interact with, but that's not really the case. You're mainly just choosing who's going to foot the bill for your network traffic. The decision seems important but it's really not IMO, at least not for someone who's just trying to jump in and see what Lemmy is all about.
Also, community discoverability is a problem, but I think that could easily be solved with better UX on the community page. (For example I think there should be a message that says "Looking for more communities? Try doing {insert instructions here} to find them."
So far? Lemmy is filled with Russian shills. I hope we outnumber them soon.
Joining communities is very counter-intuitive. They are spread around and I ended up joining lemmy.ml communities exclusively, from another instance.
We could use much more space for the text, so far the text is way too concentrated in the middle of the screen in a narrow column.
Now on the content I'm rather satisfied. It's still a bit low in volume and if you compare to reddit it's really small, but we will catch up soon. We should lower our expectations and start building anew.
Hey I'm new here bc fuck spez. There's definitely potential here. Would like it to be easier to find communities (sublemmies?) And the app needs work but I'm ready to go all in. Did I mention fuck spez yet
So, first day of Lemmy and so far I’m enjoying it. I’m looking through communities and seeing what I’d like to follow or not.
Criticism (hopefully constructive) that I do have:
I miss the random niche subreddit side of things, but I’m not sure if that’s as a result of lack people on the platform, or the UI not promoting that style of thing much.
I am missing a good iPadOS client. I’m currently using the Web UI, which works well enough, but it’d be great to have a more native app.
It seems strange that I can’t have a One True Fediverse Identity where my mastodon identity is the same as my lemmy identity and vice versa. I note that Takahē has started refocusing into more of an identity broker for ActivityPub and less of an online experience, so maybe it will be the one true unifying identity.
On the plus side:
There are a lot of fun general communities on here.
People are really nice, in general, and this doesn’t seem to be changing, compared to the histories I’ve been browsing
I really like markdown as a way to post, and it seems to work ok from my iPad
All in all, it’s been a positive 24hrs, I might give an update after a week or two.
Just signed up a few minutes ago. I honestly really like it so far. I was never into Twitter but I did try out mastodon and just couldn't get used to the look of everything. It was also confusing to sign up. So far Lemmy has been great. I am surprised how many active users there are. I was worried it would be super dead.
Especially the lemmy.ml part was kind of terrible, I got into some weird argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the mods started deleting my comments, so the whole discussion was meaningless and left me very worried for the future of this corner of the fediverse.
So far I am really enjoying it, mostly because whenever you post something you don't get 130493025084385 people telling you that your are a horrible person and completely wrong and offering you unsolicited advice and ignoring your question in the first place.
It's fine, but it's a pain having to create multiple accounts when some instances aren't linked to the one you picked to create an username.
For the rest I think the other comments have already pointed out what would need to improve in the future if we expect to leave Reddit; curiously, most of the problems we have here are the same or similar to the ones while trying to use Mastodon.
I'm enjoying figuring out how the place works. For example, when I first signed up, I couldn't work out how Beehaw.org was part of Lemmy was part of the Fediverse, but I'm now subbed to almost as many communities on other servers as I am on Beehaw.
The learning curve has perhaps been more steep than on Reddit, but no more so than Twitter > Mastodon.
I had a bit of a rocky start, but I picked up the concepts fairly quickly.
The Good:
The discussion threads here remind me of what Reddit's discussions were like about five years ago.
Comments feel more meaningful and thought-provoking as opposed to a race to "craft the wittiest meme."
The community here seems to be relatively friendly and welcoming.
The Less Good:
I find the mobile experience quite clunky at the moment. For the site, there seem to be some random overflow issues, and the interface and UI elements feel a bit too small for a mobile experience. The lack of polished, dedicated apps is somewhat of a bummer, but I'm hopeful the community will fill these gaps over time with dedicated applications.
The onboarding process is somewhat lackluster. It seems more geared towards an audience that is already familiar with federated services. I feel most new users will default to lemmy.ml out of an unwarranted sense of FOMO for not being a direct member of the largest instance, simply due to a lack of understanding of how federated apps work.
Redundant communities across multiple instances could become problematic over time. Personally, I would like to see something like user (or even mod) specified mono-communities, grouping multiple communities across multiple instances into a single thread. For example, if a user went to m/movies, whoever runs that mono could add movie-specific feeds from places like lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.
We need to have a serious discussion about generating funds for instances. Dedicated servers with high traffic can get incredibly expensive. I fear that many smaller instances will eventually go dark due to escalating operational costs. Ko-Fi donations will only go so far. We, as a community, need to start thinking of more sustainable alternatives that align with the community's core values.
The documentation for the JS SDK could use some TLC. Thankfully, it's fully typed with Typescript ❤️, so it's not too cumbersome to work out what everything does, but more code examples and descriptions for all the various methods would be a welcome change.
All in all, I'm happy with my decision to check this place out and am hopeful more people will come aboard in time. It's already become a part of my daily routine.
Now I've got my head around how the instances work and how everything is connected but not connected at the same time I'm growing to like it. Once more communities pop up I think it's going to be good
I like it ~ I joined mastodon but I think it was way too slow to load images - probably joined some dodgy overloaded server (though I like the Reddit format and community better rather than Twitter)
It's giving me Reddit 15 years ago vibes - smaller tech-savvy and agile community - my Reddit use was on and off through the years; but I like the idea that each community in the Extended Lemmiverse can all have their own vibes and cultures and implementations of the platform and we can all chat and follow topics together 🕊️
I've only been here a short while;
but maybe one thing I'd love is not to see reposts in the /all section ; I know the communities are small and growing and can cross post for more stuff , but I'm sure there could be a way for the system to know that the title and url are the same - so only show one , or auto-merge the comments and prioritise posting your comment to your local community instance's post
Edit - I might try install an instance on my website and try to make a merge function ~
It's been a little tough?
Trying to join communities hosted on other instances than the one I've joined is a little cumbersome so been having some trouble with that
It almost encourages people to join the large instances for the sake of that convenience, undermining (to a certain degree) the whole point of this being federated
I'm honestly really lost and just stumbling around in the dark. It's been really confusing to learn about federation and what ever makes lemmy so unique.
But I'm really happy to see an open source alternative to reddit which is cool.
Almost certain this has already been mentioned, but subscribing to other communities outside of your instance is kinda clunky. Having to go to another site to browse their communities and plug whatever relevant community's link into your own instance's search?
Surely there has to be a better way to find other communities that doesn't involve having to go to another instance's website.
I think it’s awesome. It’s the first time in a whole I’ve been on “new” social media and it’s bringing back a lot of feelings I thought were dead since the internet became so centralized
Something that bugs me on the desktop... When I'm scrolling down a long post like this, if someone puts up a new top-level reply the page jumps back to the top to show that reply and I lose where I was reading at. I could turn off page notifications, but then I won't get the live feeds on the front page.
This feels a lot like Reddit did 15 years ago, when they first introduced subreddits-- like I'm seeing something brand new for the first time, but it's somehow comfortable and innocent.
I love that I'm actually using essentially a protocol, instead of a corporate service. The discussion here is good, there is a lot of interest in the "old web" which I'm fascinated in, and the place has just enough users to feel comfy and not absolutely chaotic. It's awesome.
I'd say it's been a bit mixed. The software is at times a bit wonky and unpredictable. Some features are surprisingly missing (like, as an admin, just listing out users on the instance). I've had a few bugs from the client and I'm not always able to pull in content.
Having said that, I see a lot of promising stuff going on. My friends and I set up an instance and while it's tiny, we're sharing links we like and commenting on them, just like the old days of the internet. We'll be around, I think.
I like it, but it needs UI work for mass appeal. All federated services do really. It’s such a strong concept but it’s only in its (relative) infancy just as all of these events are happening to direct traffic toward the Fediverse.
its been great, i been posting in the Hexbear instance for like 2 years, i decided to make an account here while i wait for HB to federate with the rest of lemmy
Lemmy on the desktop is great. It's so much cleaner than Reddit ever was. I really enjoy it. It's missing a bunch of features for moderation and other things, but for now it gets the job done.
Reddit via Jerboa for Android is rough. The app looks fine, but things just don't work. Clicking on links refreshes the feed and you lose your place, opening photos doesn't work half the time. It's a rough experience. It needs developers to contribute to it badly, or one of the popular Reddit client devs need to come in and make a Lemmy app.
I've only seen negative toxic posts and comments from lemmygrad users. Everyone else has been really fun to talk with.
Maybe it's the demographic of users (young vs old, tech savvy vs casual, w/e) but threads here have far more activity in ratio to the number of subscribers and members.
Reddit just feels like a popularity context. Tell your 'I also choose this guy's dead wife' joke, get your karma, and for god's sake DON'T USE EMOJIS! Subs rapidly became echo chambers, or lose identity as they get larger.
Lemmy however... while not all threads have activity (it's small after all), the activity is legitimately interactive. People actually discussing ideas. We're talking like thinking adults, and I'm enjoying it.
It's generally ok. Though its tougher to use than reddit. To be honest I really wish that it did a better job of merging similar communities or something like that?
Like almost like a multi-reddit of cats to include all cats communities with dedups.. similar idea for other categories.
It's going well! One thing I've really liked so far is the "tight-knit group" sort of feeling. Not really sure the best way to explain it, but it's like the difference between working at a place where there are only 9 other employees, versus working at a corporation. It feels like you truly have the chance to be a part of something awesome, rather than just being a drop in the bucket.
It's been pretty decent so far but the fact that I can't easily browse all available communities across all servers really limits the amount of discovery I can do.
It's been great. I'm allergic to social media, yet Lemmy does not feel like social media (to me at least). I hope that the Reddit horde won't turn it into a toxic cesspool.
I joined a year ago, and it seems that activity and users are growing everyday. I even feel myself more active and engaged here, on Reddit I'm in lurking mode most of the time.
So far it is mostly fine, but confusing at times. Especially navigating and finding things. But so was reddit in the begining.
Besides this, there are a lot of communities missing. I hope there is a way to extract post-histories from subreddit so we don't loose the accumulated knowledge. Especially for troubleshooting and programming, reddit it a valuable source. I hope we will keep those and transition to lemmy (or another alternative) smoothly
I'm still dipping my toes in. Got a bit confused early on, so now I have 2 accounts, one on beehaw.org and one on kbin.social, trying both out to see which interface I like best.
I only ever lurked Reddit and am yet to change that here, but I am finding it nice to use. Once more communities, particularly niche interests, get a good amount of frequent users I think it will be an absolute joy to participate in.
A bit rough initially as you might expect with a new platform but I've now got an account on a (geographically) local instance and subscribed to some communities in general interest areas on other instances. Looks promising. Now I just gotta find some niche communities.
I'm having fun exploring the fediverse and learning how this all works. There is a decent amount of chatter on lemmy already which adds to the joy of scrolling.
I have found myself getting into an unfortunate loop where if I'm on my lemmy I accidentally end up on another instance and then get all lost at how to follow a community on another instance. Lemmy also seems to load really slowly for me, but that's not the end of the world.
Kbin solves a lot of these issues even if it's generally rougher around the edges. Having a clearer "front page" without getting lost in instances and communities helps a lot. Everything loads faster and I don't end up unable to interact after clicking a link.
That's my pretty initial reactions. I'll go play with it all some more and probably have a better feel later!
I'm enjoying it! Smaller community feels cozy, I even started commenting (was a lurker on Reddit). Although there's always a room for improvement. I occasionally lose comments because of some bugs or server issues, sometimes opening things just leads to refreshing of the main page and you lose the post and so on
I jumped straight into building an instance before even having an account somewhere else. It was a two or three day process for me, an hour or two each day, to get everything running properly. The main issue there was the docker instructions left a bit to be desired and there were no instructions for an existing apache reverse proxy at the time, but the people in the Matrix room were an amazing help.
It then took a couple of days to get used to it. I had the same questions I think a lot of people will have with their first instance- how do I get content on my instance from other federated instances? How do I get my instance searchable from other instances, and listed on browse.feddit.de? The solutions were very simple at the end of the day and everything now works great. There's just that initial learning curve.
Now I'm loving it and already see a lot of activity, hoping we'll have even more over the next month!
I'm still hoping some of the subs I frequent will migrate here. That's my only concern, tbh. If even 90% of the subs I'm following on reddit move here, I can quit reddit altogether. I'm also concerned about nsfw content (not just porn), but reddit is killing that too.
Can't start my own subs because, 1) I have no time, experience, nor patience to mod, and 2) idk of many of the people from those subs are already here.
Overall, though, lemmy/fediverse has been nice to me.
2 )There's a featured/pinned post that appears to me on my account home on lemmy.one, but I just can't see on this account. I went to the community, I searched It top-down and nope, it just doesn't exist for this account, I don't know why
The link also can't be shared, as if I copy its permalink, I got to the lemmy.one instance.
This is one of the biggest improvements it should see, but I don't know if it's possible at all.
Also, the Jerboa app is not very good, but it works(Lemmur doesn't even work). But it is secondary to me, as I think if Lemmy grows, we'll see improvements gradually in this regard.
I am enjoying myself. It seems to be surprising stable so far considering. Not sure how well it is going to go on Reddit blackout day, but then Reddit used to be down all the time back in the day too.
There are some more features and things that I am sure could be implemented, but with more users Lemmy will get more people who want to work on it as well. Nothing that couldn't be fixed with time.
On the instances side, Lemmy.ml wants to be a flagship instance, but not a general purpose instance, in spite of the fact that everyone here seems to be using it that way. Beehaw seems general interest but strongly moderated and controlled with only approved communities. I just wonder if someone will build a successful mainstream instance.
theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is)
I believe here its simply called "communities".
I made a account 5 days ago and have a good time so far. Like you, I was mostly a lurker on Reddit but here I started posting memes and opened discussions. I'm actually positive about the growth and longevity of the platform. There's enough content to keep people interested. I think Lemmy will be healthy stable around 10k active users. Should be possible.
I love it and I feel excited about it. How often do I feel excited about new tech? Almost never, because it always comes from the big dominant tech companies, and it only serves to make their influence over humans more and more powerful.
I only used Lemmy for two days. First day was seeing the awesomeness of the idea itself, second day was setting up my own instance to help spread the load of users in the future. Its glorious. :)
It's been okay, the main instance has been somewhat slow and some posts take time to show up in the feeds.
However, once I started using my self-hosted instance, it's been great! Snappy, content shows up pretty fast and federation has worked well for the time being.
I wish Jerboa was a little more polished for when I'm on my cellphone, but otherwise, the app is pretty good
@bruhsoulz
It's been good! I have to say my favorite element has been figuring out different ways that I can blend my Lemmy interactions with my Mastodon use.
UI issues/wants aside, loving the experience. I do miss some specific subs from Reddit - specifically r/videos. I haven't seem to have found a good alternative.
This doesn't particularly matter, but in the interest of answering your question, the equivalent word to "subreddits" here is "communities". Thus the /c/ instead of /r/.
It's been amazing. It feels like the reddit of old and gives me early internet vibes. I'm way more involved with the community here than I was ever on reddit. I love it and I'm staying :)
It's a little confusing so far but I haven't spent a ton of time with it yet so I put that on me. Do instances coordinate what communities they start? Let's say I'm looking for a "home assistant" community, will there only be one across all of Lemmy or will I find several?
I like it so far but my issue is that since Reddit had SUCH a huge community. Even niche subreddits were semi active. Here I think it'll take a while before we hit similar levels (or never at all)
Sometimes the exclamation mark is part of the link and it works, and sometimes it's there but not part of the link, and my phone thinks the rest is an email address.
Is there a guide anywhere to how to do links properly? TIA.
EDIT - yeah, so in my example above, the exclamation mark is not being treated as part of the link for some reason?
I am trying it out just to understand it's nuances. I think the concept is solid, but I feel like the federated part could use a little more work so it's more possible to use whatever lemmy instance you prefer. Signing up on any particular instance is fine (Though I wish it had more options), but if I cannot get onto an instance that I prefer, it's tricky to curate my experience.
That being said, I think it is a fixable problem, and I have ideas to fix that based upon other websites I've used, but I have no idea where to submit them.
Longtime Rif user posting from Jerboa. Seems pretty cool so far. The issue I've seen is some upvotes and comments not showing when viewed from a different instance.
My instance gets an occasional hiccup but usually reloading the page gets me through. Even if Lemmy doesn't end up with a Reddit-sized userbase I'm excited to see what it becomes. All-in-all feeling pretty positive about it.
I'm trying to be more active on lemmy than on reddit where I just lurked like you, so that's been a change. But I'm having a great time! Also, spinning up an instance took some trial and error but it was a lot of fun :)
As an aside, I know a lot of people are using Jerboa for their mobile browsing app of choice, but I've discovered that you can just use the Lemmy progressive web app (PWA) instead and get the same experience as desktop. In Chrome, login to whatever Lemmy instance you're registered with, click the triple dot menu, and click "install app". You'll get a "Lemmy" app downloaded and added to your homescreen that looks and functions just like the website.
It's my first full day on Lemmy and I'm liking it a lot so far. It's definitely smaller than reddit but it feels more personal this way. I'm sure that will change after the exodus that will be happening over there soon.
Its a double edged sword, a lot of the communities are small and do not have regular posts. A few I joined are effectively dead ATM; the flipside is I do find the comments and conversations to be more engaging with less of the toxicity of Reddit.
So far it's been good! Lemmy has made me hopeful for better social media. I'm not hugely into twitter-style social media so I was never really able to appreciate Mastadon.
I'm actually quite surprised with how much content is here already. There are regular posts and conversations, and a good mix of content. It's not at the level reddit is in terms of volume, but I don't feel starved or anything. I look forward to the future here!
It's good. Except for the confusion about linking to communities on different servers. That's a real show stopper, if you ask me. Which you did, technically.
Redditfugee here. Lemmy is like if reddit and IRC had a baby. Some honest feedback:
Can lemmy.ml open signups so they don't need to be approved? At least temporarily. 90% of people are going to end up here when checking out lemmy. We want to make it as easy as possible for them to sign up and get started.
It's confusing how communities on other servers aren't automatically and easily available. You can add them but they should visible from the start.
If you add an external community and are confused as to why it's missing comments and posts, there should be a message to tell the user that it's fine, it's just syncing.
I'd like an optimization for Jerboa as well as more customization for our accounts. Jerboa is fine as it is functional, but sometimes text boxes just extend all the way to the edge of the screen and makes it not visually appealing. I'm still learning though as I'm currently figuring out how to visit the communities in the other servers.
As for communities, I just hope that a mass migration of even 10% of Reddit's disappointed users would help boost the growth of Lemmy communities and help make niche communities thrive. I personally am a subscriber to the writing and anime subreddits, so I hope there'll be similar communities here.
My biggest gripe is that there isn't a working Lemmy iOS app in my region, yet.
I have spotty metered mobile internet connection, and while the web app is lightweight enough, it requires the downloading of page structures each time and it adds up after a while.
I do hope we'll eventually get high-quality apps to interface with the fediverse, much like Apollo with Reddit.
I like the desktop app, and the community - but the content is still a bit sparse. The nice thing about reddit was that you could find content for literally anything and every time you refreshed there'd be new content to view. It's obviously not nearly so busy here, but hopefully that will improve with time.
In the meantime I've been juggling this and Mastadon to get my fix lol
It's a learning process. There is definetly a mild learning curve as to how things work here compared to traditional social media platforms. But maybe that's even a good thing as to pre-filter certain audiences.
So far the interaction possibilities seem very satisfying, community seems friendlier than current reddit (maybe that's just the size of the userbase) and there is already enough, I'd call it "base content" as to be a reasonable alternative to reddit. - Which is why I created an account here.
I especially like the threaded, color coded conversation view. Makes it really discernable who responded to whom.
I also like the UI very much. Clear and easy to navigate. Only critique here: There is kind of a lot of wasted screenspace on both sides on a 4k resolution.
I think shortcuts for common mouseclicks and formatting like in RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) would go a long way here too.
So far so good! I think I'm on the early upswing part of the learning curve. I was just allowed into the instance I wanted to be a part of, and I'm hoping to carve some fuck around time out of work over the next couple of days to figure the bits out that feel somewhat awkward to me still.
Even though I select "All" as my default type, it doesn't seem to populate anything after the second page of results? But if I click on "all" manually, I get all the pages. Otherwise, I'm just discovering things still, and exploring - which is fun!
I don't really like how the front page looks, it reminds me of new reddit and the official reddit app a bit too much. Other than that, I'm still just looking around and haven't done much. I downloaded an app but it's kinda bad and I'd rather just use a browser for now
I read the Lemmy Documentation before signing up for a server and that has helped me to understand what is going on here. I would say that my experience has been generally positive. I really like this platform.
Quite enjoyable and, since seeing the sub.rehab site someone else posted, even better. I've found quite a few subs that have made their way over to Lemmy.
My only gripe is that quite a few have made their way to lemmy.world, and it's buckling under pressure. I can't sign up on that instance, nor can I remotely sub to communities from my own instance. Once that's resolved, I think I'll definitely be happy to call Lemmy my new home.
It’s been good so far. I’ve just been lurking, looking at different communities. I’m a long time Reddit user and like others have said, I’m going to miss the really niche subreddits. Hopefully the platform keeps growing!
I mostly lurk on communities. But that's another matter entirely.
Anyway, enjoying being away from the depressing mess that reddit has become. Verrrry slowly getting the hang of things. Signed up in beehaw.org and Lemmy.ml mainly because I didn't know what the hell I was doing!
Main confusion for me is communities. Searched and found a few that are mostly on Lemmy.ml. But I can subscribe to and see from beehaw.org. But some just do not show up until I log into Lemmy.ml
I use jerboa which is a little clunky but I kinda like that. It's a learning curve I guess. How the internet used to be in a way. I'm 53 so remember the day of 33.3 modems and tweaking windows configs (get off my lawn)
I'm amazed it runs so well. It's incredibly speedy for a wss implementation.
I had a bit of trouble signing up, but was approved super quickly and could log in.
(I might bother support later about it, when things settle down)
Even federated topics are blazing fast. Now I am thinking of setting up my own server on my Oracle Cloud Free Tier.
Markdown works just like old.reddit. But it feels like it already has RES and ton's of plugins preinstalled. I am really quite happy.
Pretty great honestly. I've found almost all the "subs" I'm interested in, and the community has been very nice. There's a few small things I'd like to see (UI improvements, 2FA (coming next patch), etc), but those will come in time :)
Good so far. The one and only Android app available for it is serviceable, though not without issues. Other than that, if usage picks up I can see myself spending more time here.
I miss the reddit way to only scroll on the main page to see content, but I know that this is not liked by most users, some prefers the old.reddit.com way
I still use reddit (for now) but I'm very much enjoying the smaller community feel on beehaw, while being able to join in on conversations in other instances whenever I feel like it.
There have been some stability issues on most of the more popular instances because of the sudden influx, but of course that's to be expected and I just take it as a hint to get off the internet for a while, lol
@bruhsoulz
If you want an example of what happens when two servers block one another.
calckey.social and lemmy.one can talk to each other. So my post is visible here: https://lemmy.one/comment/33034
calckey.social can’t talk with lemmy.ml so the post isn’t on lemmy.ml
Since lemmy.ml is the home server of "asklemmy", it can’t be forwarded to other servers so no one can see it except lemmy.one and calckey.social
so far so go. i'm an old fart so familiarisation takes longer, and is easily forgotten ! 15 years on reddit before getting a permaban for saying "go outside fatso". Not my proudest moment, but there you go.
reddits downfall is multifaceted, but its certainly not helped by career Mods, who mod 20,30,50 different subs and network extensively.
My experience has been great! I’m trying to open up and contribute more to help this place grow. I made accounts on lemmy.ml and mastodon.social. While initially it was hard trying to find people and communities to follow, I think I’ve got the hang of it and am finding new content every day! There were some good posts on Reddit that helped me find lists of Mastodon users and Lemmy communities. By the end of the month I’ll be telling all my friends to hop on and helping them with the migration.
I downloaded the app mlem and logged into this account, then I opened a link to a thing/group called "technology" or something close to that.
The top post was the was the first time in over 20 years of going online that I saw illegal images. No way to report it, no way to do anything but delete the app. Now I use the browser only. But other than that, kind of ok with a lot walls of text about social media ethics.
It's a bit clunkier than Reddit, and obviously a smaller userbase. I'm sure the experience will get better with time. The real key to success will be getting more users to create content
Was also a reddit lurker before joining lemmy. It’s been pretty good so far! The only issue I had was that my first password was too long but it still let me make the account, so I couldn’t log in until I reset it to a shorter one. Other than that no issues other than thing occasionally taking a while to load.
Loving the friendly community!
First day of browsing Lemmy. So far so good. It took me a while to grasp the concept of an instance, but it seems to make sense to me now. I'm just hoping more communities start filling up and that the iOS app can get more development. Mlem is functional but veeery barebones right now. The browser works fine though!
People and posts here are better. Tech experience is worse. The web interface is worse (too much broken JS and websocket crap), I can't login from a mobile browser, the federation scheme is confusing, the Android app story is not there yet, Jerboa doesn't support older phones that still work perfectly well with RedReader, yada yada. I have somewhat more retro tastes than probably most of the younguns here, so my thoughts are heading towards writing my own desktop front end. But I don't feel like I want to attempt mobile development.
Very buggy, but overall a lot more user-friendly than I expected. The fediverse was a bit difficult to grasp as a concept (especially since all the explanations love to say that it's like email, which it's not, and then refuse to clarify further), but I think I got it now. Overall I can see myself moving entirely to lemmy.
Unfortunately, the UI source is not approachable to me (despite being very familiar with web tech). Theming documentation is not there yet either.
As far as content goes, it's still niche, so amount and usefulness varies a lot between communities and overall. But I've liked it in principle, posted comments, and found interesting links/infos.
I'm using kbin and I'm enjoying what I'm seeing so far. I think my biggest hurdle (coming from Sync on Reddit) will be getting used to a new UI, and not having the amount of customisation that I'm used to. I'm looking forward to the mobile app that's hopefully coming soon, and while it's certainly a different experience on a smaller scale, I'd like to see more people, posts and comments.
just got my signup approved, the ui is awesome and the dark mode this place has won't destroy my eyes during night shift. it's a bit slower than reddit but that's fine
I found it easy to join a server, subscribe to communities and post. I've also created a community that I'm passionate about and I'm trying to grow it.
I tried creating a server but failed big time, I'm a novice at that kind of stuff and didn't have the experience to know what I was doing wrong.
There are some things i recognize like news and such. Reddit was so ubiquitous that if i had a problem with just about any game i could find a subreddit. Here i am not at all sure how making federations or threads work. And things are still a little sparse. I am connected to beehaw. If i connect to another group will i see completely new communities or recreations of the standard ones?
I'm liking the platform, but it could use more niche subs. Doesn't matter what it is, I can always assume that there exists a subreddit for everything. I hope to see lemmy get there one day.
Sorry if this is a stupid question (and it does sound like something that was answered already), but is there an app for Android that works for Lemmy.world?
The ones I've seen (Jerboa, Lemmur) seem to only work for Lemmy.ml and a few others.
It feels very exciting to be here! It's a lot more open and customizable than other social media. I really hope that this is a small glimpse of what the future of the internet could be.
Being honest: confusing. I can’t really decide if I like it or not right now.
It’s quite different from Reddit as in: you only see what you’re interested in (unless you’re in a big instance like lemmy.ml), but you have to look for it. Don’t get me wrong, this can be great! But there were situations where I accidentally found a niche subreddit that really matched stuff that I liked. I see that as more difficult here, but I might be wrong! Only time will tell
My biggest complaints are all UI based. I wish the UI felt a bit less crowded, and there was a setting that would instead load up pages that don't auto-update.
Had some issues getting an account with loading going infinitely until approved, which is just confusing as a new user as there was no notification about it timing out, and almost led to some duplication by accident. But so far it has actually been pretty smooth other than that, I like the UI and the community focus a lot.
Overall it looks promising. Upgrading however from 0.17.y to 0.18.0 went unsuccessful for me. Ended up simply starting over from scratch. Thankfully the instance did not have any noticeable content anyways yet so the only thing lost were two days of headache.
I am looking forward to get it more reliable since potential is certainly there.
Unfortunately, I've been getting some 404 not found of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I'm using, e.g. I'm using kbin.social at the current posting account, but let's say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction there's no issues whatsoever (since it's the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.
So far it is okay, the thing I'm most annoyed by is that is very hard to just casually browse all posts. It works okay, but after a while there seem to be a sync event or something happening bringing a ton of posts from a server and they are always added to the top of all, no matter what i sort by. If i sort by all - hot for example. A bunch of 1 vote posts suddenly are added to the top making me have to chase the list of the post i previously viewed. Does anyone know of a way to stop this sync from automatically happening?